Hiroshima University

Hiroshima University (HU) is a Japanese national research university headquartered in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, established on 31 May 1949 under the National School Establishment Law by combining eight pre-war institutions of higher education in the prefecture.广岛大学（简称广大）是日本广岛县东广岛市的国立研究型综合大学，1949 年 5 月 31 日依《国立学校设置法》成立，由广岛县八所战前高等教育机构合并组建。

Its earliest strand reaches back to the Hiroshima Normal School founded in 1874, and its founding principle is expressed as "a single unified university, free and pursuing peace".其办学渊源最早可追溯至 1874 年设立的广岛师范学校，建校理念表述为“一所自由、追求和平的单一综合性大学”。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 481st, and OpenAlex associates about 128,489 research works and some 7.4 million citations with the university.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列第 481；OpenAlex 收录其论文约 128,489 篇、被引约 740 万次。

History

• The oldest element of the university is the Hiroshima Normal School, founded in 1874, which the university counts as the beginning of its 150th anniversary marked in 2024.学校最古老的源头是 1874 年创立的广岛师范学校，2024 年校方以这一年为起点纪念建校 150 周年。

• In 1902 the Hiroshima Higher Normal School was established and soon stood as one of the two national centres in Japan for training middle-school teachers, the other being in Tokyo.1902 年广岛高等师范学校设立，很快与东京的高等师范学校并列为日本培养中学师资的两大中心。

• The Hiroshima Higher Technical School was founded in 1920 and was upgraded to a technical college in 1944, supplying many graduates to the Japanese manufacturing industry.广岛高等工业学校创建于 1920 年，1944 年升格为专门学校，为日本制造业输送了大批毕业生。

• The Hiroshima Higher School opened in 1923 as one of the pre-war higher schools that prepared students for imperial and other government-supported universities.广岛高等学校于 1923 年开办，是战前为帝国大学及其他官立大学输送生源的旧制高等学校之一。

• In 1929 the Hiroshima University of Literature and Science was created as one of Japan's national universities, giving the future institution an early research identity in the humanities and the sciences.1929 年广岛文理科大学作为日本国立大学之一成立，使日后的广岛大学在人文与理学领域具备了早期的研究底色。

• On 6 August 1945 the atomic bombing of Hiroshima destroyed much of the pre-war teaching infrastructure, and the institutions that later formed the new university lost buildings and staff but were rebuilt.1945 年 8 月 6 日广岛遭原子弹轰炸，战前办学设施大面积损毁，日后组成新大学的各校损失了校舍与师资，随后着手重建。

• On 31 May 1949 Hiroshima University was established under the National School Establishment Law, absorbing eight pre-war institutions including the Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, the Hiroshima Higher Normal School, the Hiroshima Higher School and the Hiroshima Higher Technical School.1949 年 5 月 31 日，广岛大学依《国立学校设置法》成立，整合了广岛文理科大学、广岛高等师范学校、广岛高等学校、广岛高等工业学校等八所战前机构。

• Mamoru Sakurai, then head of the Hiroshima Women's Higher Normal School, became the university's first acting president on 31 May 1949, and the former education minister Tatsuo Morito took office as president on 19 April 1950.1949 年 5 月 31 日，时任广岛女子高等师范学校校长的樱井役出任首任校长（事务取扱）；1950 年 4 月 19 日，前文部大臣森户辰男就任校长。

• Graduate schools were created in 1953, and between 1953 and 1956 the Hiroshima Medical College was consolidated into the university, anchoring medicine in the new institution.1953 年学校设立研究生院；1953 至 1956 年间广岛医科大学并入，使医学成为新大学的重要支柱。

• In 1961 the Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine was founded to study the effects of the atomic bomb and of radiation on the human body and to develop treatments for radiation injury.1961 年广岛大学放射线医科学研究所成立，研究原子弹与放射线对人体的影响，并探索放射损伤的治疗方法。

• Faced with a congested city site, the university decided by 1972 to move to a larger campus, and it relocated from Hiroshima city to Higashihiroshima between 1982 and 1995.由于市区校舍拥挤，校方于 1972 年前后决定迁往更大的校园，1982 至 1995 年间由广岛市区整体迁至东广岛市。

• The Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden was established as a facility of the Faculty of Science in 1974, and the Department of Neurosurgery was created at the School of Medicine in the same year.1974 年宫岛自然植物园作为理学部附属设施设立，同年医学部脑神经外科教室成立。

• In 1996 the university opened the Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, known as HiSOR, which remains the only synchrotron radiation facility attached to a Japanese national university.1996 年学校建成广岛同步辐射中心（HiSOR），至今仍是日本唯一附设于国立大学的同步辐射装置。

• In April 2004 the university was reconstituted as a National University Corporation, the legal form adopted that year by every Japanese national university.2004 年 4 月学校改制为国立大学法人，这是当年日本所有国立大学统一采用的法律形式。

• On 1 April 2015 Mitsuo Ochi, an orthopaedic surgeon who had carried out the world's first three-dimensional autologous cultured cartilage transplantation, became the university's 12th president.2015 年 4 月 1 日，曾完成全球首例三维自体培养软骨移植的骨科医生越智光夫就任该校第 12 任校长。

• Also in 2015 the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology selected Hiroshima University as one of the TOP-type universities of the Top Global University Project, a designation given to only about a dozen institutions across the country.同年，文部科学省将广岛大学列为“超级国际化大学”计划 TOP 型指定校，全国获此定位的院校仅十余所。

• In 2023 the School of Law moved from Higashihiroshima to the Higashisenda campus in central Hiroshima, part of a plan to bring professional education closer to the city's legal and business districts.2023 年法学部由东广岛校区迁至广岛市中心的东千田校区，以更贴近城市的法律与商业圈。

• Hiroshima University published its 75-year history in November 2024, when it also marked a 150th anniversary linking the 1874 founding of its predecessors to the 1949 establishment of the university.2024 年 11 月学校出版《广岛大学 75 年史》，同时纪念建校 150 周年，把 1874 年旧校起源与 1949 年建校串联起来。

• In 2025 unexploded ordnance from the Second World War was again recovered at a construction site on the Kasumi campus, land that had housed the Hiroshima Army Ordnance Supply Depot before 1945.2025 年霞校区一处工地再次发现二战遗留未爆弹，该地块在 1945 年前曾是广岛陆军兵器补给厂所在地。

• In 2026 an industry-academia-government collaborative research building was completed on the Higashi-Hiroshima campus as a hub for semiconductor and meta-matter research, and the University of Idaho Hiroshima campus opened during the summer.2026 年东广岛校区建成产学官合作研究大楼，作为半导体与超物质研究的枢纽；同年夏天爱达荷大学广岛校区开办。

• Over its first 75 years the university grew from eight merged schools into a comprehensive institution operating 12 undergraduate schools, four graduate schools and a research institute across three campuses.建校 75 年间，学校由合并而来的八所院校发展为拥有 12 个学部、4 个研究科与 1 个研究院、分布于三个校区的综合性大学。

Academics

• Hiroshima University is organised into 12 undergraduate schools, four graduate schools and one research institute, making it one of the largest national comprehensive universities in Japan.广岛大学现设 12 个学部、4 个研究科与 1 个研究院，是日本规模最大的国立综合性大学之一。

• Its undergraduate schools are Integrated Arts and Sciences, Letters, Education, Law, Economics, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Applied Biological Science, and Informatics and Data Science.其 12 个学部为综合科学部、文学部、教育学部、法学部、经济学部、理学部、医学部、齿学部、药学部、工学部、生物生产学部与信息数据科学部。

• Graduate teaching is delivered through the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, the Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life and the Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.研究生教育由人文社会科学研究科、先进理工系科学研究科、统合生命科学研究科与生物医学与健康科学研究科承担。

• As of 1 May 2025 the university employed 1,641 teaching staff, and its academic and administrative workforce totalled 3,491 people.截至 2025 年 5 月 1 日，学校有专任教员 1,641 人，教学与行政等教职员工合计 3,491 人。

• In the same May 2025 count the university enrolled 10,730 undergraduates and 4,766 graduate students, a community of about 15,000 learners.同一 2025 年 5 月口径下，学校有本科生 10,730 人、研究生 4,766 人，合计约 1.5 万人。

• Some 1,919 international students from 97 countries and regions were registered in May 2025, and the university runs both Japanese-language and English-taught pathways for them.2025 年 5 月来自 97 个国家和地区的留学生有 1,919 人，学校为其开设日语与全英文授课两种培养路径。

• The university library holds about 3.39 million volumes and provides access to extensive academic databases, with branch libraries serving each campus.学校图书馆藏书约 339 万册，并提供大量学术数据库资源，各校区均设分馆。

• The Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, founded in 1961, is the university's attached institute and works on the health effects of radiation and on disaster medicine.成立于 1961 年的放射线医科学研究所是学校附属研究所，研究放射线的健康影响与灾害医学。

• The Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, or HiSOR, was set up in 1996 and operates a compact 700 MeV electron storage ring for materials and life-science research.广岛同步辐射中心（HiSOR）于 1996 年建成，运行一台 700 兆电子伏特的紧凑型电子储存环，服务于材料与生命科学研究。

• The Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden, a facility of the faculty since 1974, is used for botanical research and field teaching on the flora of the Seto Inland Sea region.宫岛自然植物园自 1974 年起为学部附属设施，用于濑户内海地区植物区系的研究与野外教学。

• Hiroshima University Hospital on the Kasumi campus provides clinical training for the schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences and delivers advanced medical care.霞校区的广岛大学医院为医学部、齿学部与药学部提供临床教学，并承担高水平医疗服务。

• The Center for Research on Regional Economic Systems, based at the Higashisenda campus, carries out policy research on the economy of the Chugoku and Shikoku region.设于东千田校区的区域经济系统研究中心，开展中国地方与四国地区经济的政策研究。

• The Hiroshima University Archives collect, organise and disclose documents on the institution's history and support education and research on its past.广岛大学档案室负责收集、整理与公开校史文献，并支持相关教育与研究。

• Admission to the undergraduate schools is competitive and normally requires candidates to sit the national common university entrance test and then the university's own second-stage examinations.本科招生竞争激烈，考生通常须先参加全国大学入学共通考试，再参加学校自行组织的二次考试。

• The university's five guiding principles, among them the pursuit of peace, the creation of new forms of knowledge and the nurturing of well-rounded human beings, shape teaching and research across the faculties.学校的五项办学理念包括追求和平、创造新知与培养全面发展的人才，贯穿各学部的教学与研究。

• The Kagamiyama campus concentrates eight undergraduate schools together with three graduate schools and one research institute, making it the university's main academic site.镜山校区集中了 8 个学部、3 个研究科与 1 个研究院，是学校的主教学科研区。

• Through its school of medicine and its radiation institute the university has built a recognised profile in radiation medicine, oncology and disaster medical science.依托医学部与放射线研究所，学校在放射医学、肿瘤学与灾害医学方向形成了公认的特色。

• International exchange agreements and English-taught programmes bring students from around the world, and the university hosts visiting researchers under bilateral agreements.国际交流协议与全英文课程吸引各国学生，学校也依据双边协议接收访问研究者。

Campus

• The Higashi-Hiroshima campus at 1-3-2 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, covers about 250 hectares and houses eight undergraduate schools, three graduate schools and one research institute.位于东广岛市镜山一丁目 3 番 2 号的东广岛校区占地约 250 公顷，容纳 8 个学部、3 个研究科与 1 个研究院。

• The Kasumi campus at 1-2-3 Kasumi in Minami-ku, Hiroshima, hosts the schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences together with Hiroshima University Hospital.位于广岛市南区霞 1 丁目 2 番 3 号的霞校区，设医学部、齿学部、药学部以及广岛大学医院。

• The Higashisenda campus at 1-1-89 Higashisenda-machi in Naka-ku, Hiroshima, holds the School of Law and the Center for Research on Regional Economic Systems, with 937 undergraduates and 205 graduate students in May 2026.位于广岛市中区东千田町 1 丁目 1 番 89 号的东千田校区设法学部与区域经济系统研究中心，2026 年 5 月有本科生 937 人、研究生 205 人。

• That Higashisenda campus also enrolled 133 international students in May 2026, and the arrival of the School of Law in 2023 returned legal education to central Hiroshima.该校区 2026 年 5 月另有留学生 133 人；法学部 2023 年迁入，标志着法学教育重返广岛市中心。

• The present layout of the university is the outcome of the relocation from Hiroshima city to Higashihiroshima carried out between 1982 and 1995, which replaced cramped wartime sites with a purpose-built campus.今日格局源自 1982 至 1995 年由广岛市区向东广岛的搬迁，以新建校园取代了局促的战时校址。

• The Central Library is the largest of the university's libraries, holding about 3.39 million volumes, while the Kasumi and Higashisenda campuses have their own libraries.中央图书馆是校内最大的图书馆，藏书约 339 万册，霞与东千田校区另设分馆。

• The Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden on Miyajima island west of Hiroshima conserves wild plants and forests of the Seto Inland Sea area and is used for field courses.位于广岛以西宫岛的宫岛自然植物园保存濑户内海地区的野生植物与森林，并用于野外实习课程。

• The Higashi-Hiroshima campus retains satoyama woodland, ponds and experimental farmland beside its teaching buildings, and the university publishes a campus nature guide and runs a live campus web camera.东广岛校区在教学楼旁保留里山林地、池塘与试验农田；校方编有校园自然导览，并设有实时校园网络摄像头。

• A campus bus network links the Higashi-Hiroshima campus with JR Higashi-Hiroshima Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen line, while the Kasumi and Higashisenda campuses sit on Hiroshima city transport routes.校园巴士连接东广岛校区与山阳新干线东广岛站，霞与东千田校区则位于广岛市内公交线路沿线。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Hiroshima University is placed 481st, as published in that year's table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，广岛大学位列第 481。^[1]

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 601-650 band, the broad range it has occupied in recent years.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 601 至 650 区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking it is placed 609th among the world's universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 609。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it lies in the 401-500 band, keeping its place among the world's leading research universities.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位列 401 至 500 区间。^[2]

• OpenAlex records about 128,489 research works and some 7.4 million citations for the university, an output concentrated in physics, medicine, chemistry and engineering.OpenAlex 收录该校论文约 128,489 篇、被引约 740 万次，产出集中于物理、医学、化学与工程领域。

• The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology named it a TOP-type university under the Top Global University Project in 2015, a designation given to only about a dozen institutions nationwide.2015 年文部科学省将其列为“超级国际化大学”计划 TOP 型指定校，全国仅十余所院校获此定位。

• With Kobe, Okayama and Chiba universities it forms the group nicknamed Kaneokachihiro, a set of regional national universities often regarded as quasi-elite in Japan.该校与神户、冈山、千叶三所大学并称“金冈千广”，被视为日本准精英层级的地区国立大学组合。

• In the 2024 Times Higher Education subject rankings its social sciences and education programmes placed fifth in Japan and its psychology programme seventh in Japan.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，其社会科学与教育学居日本第 5、心理学居日本第 7。

• Its alumni include a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate (Kenzo Tange, 1987), a Blue Planet Prize winner (Akira Miyawaki, 2006) and an Akutagawa Prize-winning novelist (Hiroko Oyamada, 2013).其校友中有普利兹克建筑奖得主丹下健三（1987 年）、蓝色星球奖得主宫胁昭（2006 年）与芥川奖得主小说家小山田浩子（2013 年）。

Student life

• The founding principle of the university is "a single unified university, free and pursuing peace", adopted when it was created in the atomic-bombed city in 1949.学校的建校理念是“一所自由、追求和平的单一综合性大学”，1949 年在遭受原子弹轰炸的城市创立时确立。

• Five guiding principles, beginning with the pursuit of peace, guide its education, research and social contribution, and the university keeps a page listing them.以追求和平为首的五项办学理念统领其教育、科研与社会贡献，学校官网设有专页列出这五项准则。

• The university crest is a stylised phoenix, the bird of Egyptian myth that is reborn from its own ashes, chosen as a symbol of Hiroshima's rebirth and of the university's renewal.校徽为抽象化的凤凰，即埃及神话中自灰烬重生的神鸟，寓意广岛的重生与学校的复兴。

• The university's three symbols are the university tree, a phoenix tree, the crest and flag, and the university song, which was adopted in 1957.学校的三项标识为校树（凤凰木）、校徽与校旗，以及 1957 年制定的校歌。

• For the university song the university invited students, graduates and staff to submit lyrics from 20 September 1955, received 44 entries and selected a text by a student of the Faculty of Letters, set to music by the conductor Shin'ichi Takada.1955 年 9 月 20 日起校方公开征集校歌词作，共收稿 44 篇，最终选用文学部学生的作品，由指挥家高田信一谱曲。

• Student clubs and circles perform at the summer Yukata Festival and the autumn University Festival, and the university publishes a Campus Life Guide for each academic year.学生社团与同好会在夏季浴衣节与秋季大学祭上演出，校方每学年编发《校园生活指南》。

• International students, 1,919 from 97 countries in May 2025, take part in Japanese-language programmes and English-taught courses and join the same clubs as domestic students.2025 年 5 月来自 97 个国家的 1,919 名留学生，参加日语课程与全英文课程，并与本国学生一同加入各类社团。

• The university maintains an alumni association and support foundations, and it confers honorary doctorates and honorary distinguished professorships as part of its academic community.学校设有校友会与各类后援基金，并授予名誉博士与名誉杰出教授称号，以维系学术共同体。

• Hiroshima University's anniversary is tied to its establishment on 31 May 1949, and its 75th anniversary in 2024 was marked with the publication of the official 75-year history.广岛大学以 1949 年 5 月 31 日建校为校庆节点，2024 年 75 周年之际出版了官方《75 年史》。

Notable people

• Mamoru Sakurai, head of the Hiroshima Women's Higher Normal School, became the university's first acting president on 31 May 1949 and served until April 1950.广岛女子高等师范学校校长樱井役于 1949 年 5 月 31 日出任首任校长（事务取扱），任职至 1950 年 4 月。

• Tatsuo Morito, a former Minister of Education born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1888, took office as president on 19 April 1950 and led the university through its early expansion.1888 年生于广岛县的前文部大臣森户辰男于 1950 年 4 月 19 日就任校长，主持了学校早期的发展。

• Kenzo Tange, the architect who designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, graduated from the pre-war Hiroshima Higher School and in 1987 became the first Japanese winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.设计广岛和平纪念资料馆的建筑师丹下健三毕业于战前的广岛高等学校，1987 年成为首位获得普利兹克建筑奖的日本人。

• Akira Miyawaki, a botanist and a graduate of the university, won the Blue Planet Prize in 2006 for his method of restoring native forests from indigenous seedlings.本校毕业生、植物学家宫胁昭因提出以乡土苗木重建原生林的方法，于 2006 年获蓝色星球奖。

• Shintaro Uda, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna, is counted among the university's alumni and was awarded the Japan Academy Prize.共同发明八木—宇田天线的宇田新太郎被列为该校校友，并获日本学士院奖。

• Hiroko Oyamada, a novelist who studied at the university, won the Akutagawa Prize in 2013 for her novella The Hole.曾就读于该校的小说家小山田浩子，凭中篇小说《穴》获 2013 年芥川奖。

• Hiroyuki Agawa, a novelist and literary critic born in Hiroshima in 1920, graduated from the university and wrote about the atomic bombing of his home city.1920 年生于广岛的小说家与文艺评论家阿川弘之毕业于该校，并以故乡遭受核爆的经历为题材写作。

• Wataru Kubo, a graduate of the university, served in the House of Councillors and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Japan.该校毕业生久保亘曾任日本参议院议员、副首相兼财务大臣。

• Chobyo Yara, an alumnus, served as the last Chief Executive of the Government of the Ryukyu Islands and later as Governor of Okinawa Prefecture.校友屋良朝苗曾任琉球政府最后一任行政主席，后出任冲绳县知事。

• Yura Halim, another alumnus, served as Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Brunei and as Brunei's ambassador to Japan.同为校友的尤拉·哈林曾任文莱州务大臣（首席部长）及文莱驻日本大使。

• Takeshi Taketsuru, a graduate of the university, became president of Nikka Whisky Distilling, the company founded by his adoptive father Masataka Taketsuru.该校毕业生竹鹤威出任由其养父竹鹤政孝创办的日果威士忌公司社长。

• Mitsuo Ochi, the university's 12th president since April 2015, is an orthopaedic surgeon whose cultured-cartilage treatment entered Japan's national health insurance scheme in 2013.自 2015 年 4 月起任第 12 任校长的越智光夫是骨科医生，其培养软骨移植疗法自 2013 年起纳入日本国民健康保险。